Col. Gen. Paul Stumpff signs the surrender terms for the Luftwaffe, Germany s air force, early May 9, 1945, in Berlin. The combined chiefs of the German army, navy and air force signed the formal ratification of the Third Reich s unconditional surrender in Berlin before Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, representing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of all Allied forces, and Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, deputy commmander-in-chief of the Soviet Forces. The event took place two days after a document was signed by German officials in Reims, France, and announced the following day, May 8.
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Col. Gen. Gustaf Jodl, German chief of staff to Adm. Karl Doenitz, reads the document of unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies, which he is about to sign at 2:42 a.m. May 7, 1945, in the war room at Forward Headquarters of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces at Reims, France. Under the instrument of surrender all German armed forces were boun